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Literacy garden enjoys success in first summer
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Courtney Dwyer, left, gardens with her daughter Finleigh Dwyer, 5, center, and Aubrey Looper, 5, right during the literacy garden event at the Hall County School District offices in Gainesville on Wednesday. Every week during the summer, preschoolers and first-graders were able to come to the garden with an adult to hear stories and participate in different activities such as coloring and gardening. - photo by David Barnes
As she watched more than 70 young children and parents listening to “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” and later participating in a scavenger hunt and other activities in the literacy garden, Kathy Lovett smiled. The garden, located next to the Hall County Schools offices at 711 Green St., was her dream. “It’s extremely gratifying to see people appreciating my dream, but more than that, to see children enjoying the books and seeing them explore Mr McGregor’s vegetable garden …,” said Lovett, who began developing the idea for the garden while undergoing chemotherapy a couple of years ago.